Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most important and forward-looking work on space and the true possibilities of human exploration since Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer planets of our own solar system--and beyond. |
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... Type III civilization to wield . But we've got ourselves a black hole here , in this case one with a potential power output of 3.9 × 1022 W. At that power level , it could generate the required energy to move itself in 90 days . As ...
... Type I L civilization can be wiped out by an asteroid or an epidemic , and a Type II civilization could be eliminated by an interplanetary war or having its star go nova , what could possibly destroy a Type III civilization once it has ...
... Type III technologies . No species can last long as a Type III civilization if it is not also wise . In most matters , the long view is the wise view . True , as discussed in conjunction with the SETI search , there could be anomalies ...